The fight for women’s equality in music is far from a new discussion. In 2018, only one solo female musician accepted an award on the televised portion of the Grammy Awards ceremony. After the show, ...

Among the acts to take the Eurovision stage this weekend are the all-female folk band Vesna, who are representing Czechia in this year’s song contest. With the semi-finals now done and dusted, the 26 ...

All folks are welcome to enjoy the folk! The annual Women of Folk Festival happens this coming weekend. Celebrating women in music, arts, and more it’s a wonderful day of community and music! We get ...

Athens indie-folk band Lighthearted are headlining an excellent line-up of female artists and female-led bands at El Rocko. Led by twin sisters Gracie Huffman and Eliza Lemmon, Lighthearted create ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - In the Smith gallery at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library last month, people pressed their ears to the door to hear Marie Svirgova, 83, singing as she worked on a custom ...

When Maria Di Meglio is firing on all sonic cylinders, as a third of the all-female band Harpeth Rising, she's playing cello, singing in harmony, and keeping the beat on a bass drum with her left foot ...

The Newport Folk Festival has made more than its share of music history since its founding 60 years ago. And it did so again this weekend, as women artists were in the spotlight, comprising the ...

Folk magic goes by many names in the Appalachian Mountains: root work, granny magic, kitchen witchery, Braucherei, witchcraft Emma Cieslik Isolation is a part of life in the Appalachian Mountains, and ...

When fiddle player Bella Hardy was asked if she wanted to join forces with three other formidable folk musicians and form a group, she didn’t think twice. The artists in question just happened to be ...

The 1970s produced some of the most talented, prolific and iconic female vocalists of all time. From once-in-a-lifetime voices like Patti LaBelle and Aretha Franklin to pop culture royalty like Patti ...

Whitney Houston Performs In Paris Bercy on May 18th, 1988. She is one of the best female vocalists of the 1980s. The 1980s were a great time for music, with so many iconic female singers and vocalists ...

“Hubble bubble toil and trouble” is a quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth that conjures images of evil witches making potions in giant cauldrons. But the truth was that women persecuted as witches were ...